Book Reviews

Mirror: The Mountain is a graphic novel created by Emma Rios and illustrated by Hwei Lim. The story set on an asteroid that has been terraformed by the mage scientists of Synchronia. When the mage scientists sent down animals as test subjects, the sentient asteroid gifted those animals with human-like capabilities. Mirror: The Mountain starts out as aRead more

Next up on my queue of vacation reading–Black Butler! As I mentioned when I reviewed the first volume, Black Butler is one of my all-time favorite anime series, and I’m now reading the manga that it was based on. Black Butler is set in an alternate version of Victorian England. Ciel Phantomhive, the protagonist, isRead more

I picked up the first volume of Wayward on a whim. Mike and I were about to go tent camping, and we figured that reading comics in the tent would be fun, so I ordered a bunch of random trades published by Image. For any non-comic-book-fans, Image is interesting because characters belong to the authors rather thanRead more

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence is a fantasy novel unlike any I’ve read before. It’s been a while since I finished this book (it was in the middle of my travels to and from PA a few months back and I was an emotional wreck at the time, so please excuse any fuzziness), but I wantedRead more

Over the past month or so, I’ve been reading Naamah’s Curse by Jacqueline Carey with a group of blog friends. Naamah’s Curse is the second book in the third trilogy of the Kushiel’s Legacy series. In a nutshell–at the end of the last book, Moirin, a Celtic bear-witch, saves the life of Bao, a Chinese martial artist. InRead more

I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump lately. I’m 16 books behind on my Goodreads goal, and have been having a hard time getting immersed in books. In an attempt to get out of my slump, I hopped on NetGalley and downloaded The Red: An Erotic Fantasy by one of my favorite authors, Tiffany Reisz.Read more

Shadowfire (originally published as Vazkor, Son of Vazkor) is the second book in Tanith Lee’s Birthgrave Trilogy. In the first book, a nameless woman awakens from her slumber in a volcano. She was the last of a doomed race, and wandered the world in search of her past and her future. At one point in The Birthgrave, she hasRead more

Warrior Witch is the third book in Danielle Jensen’s Malediction Trilogy. As a brief recap: the protagonist, a young human named Cecile, is married against her will to a troll prince in book one, in order to try to break a curse that doomed all of the trolls to life in a subterranean prison. But TristanRead more

The Illusionist’s Apprentice by Kristy Cambron is a mystery/romance set in the mid 1920s starring the great illusionist Harry Houdini’s former apprentice. Wren Lockhart lives alone with only one companion, her manager Irina. She wears men’s clothing and stands out from her peers. After Houdini’s death, Wren has kept a low profile, performing in vaudeville shows butRead more

Rowan’s Ruin is a standalone trade paperback graphic novel about a girl named Katie who participates in a house swap, only to find that the house is haunted. But Katie isn’t scared off–instead she goes to the library and tries to figure out the house’s mysteries. As she learns about the house’s history, she hasRead more